The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-22 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Feb. 9. It is evident that Mr. Lincoln will not achieve an easy victory in his at tempt to be renominated, or to renominate himself, for the Presidency. There is danger ahead—danger not only of political con vulsion, but of bloodshed. The question begins to override all other sin the minds of the people. Mili tary events have lost their interest, and nothing short of a sig nal triumph of the Confederates in Tennessee or Virginia will revive it. The threat ened conscription between the Ist and 10th of March awakes no solicitude. The bulk of the people—the men of the fighting age—undazzled by the bounty offered—believe that not a man will be taken forci bly from his home to be driven to the " bullock pens" of Southern battle, and devote what atten tion they can spare to the study of Mr. Lincoln's chances, or of the prospects of Generals Grant, M'Clellan, and Fremont, or of Mr. Secretary Chase. Even the gamblers and stockjobbers of Wall and William streets are learning to devote some por tion of their leisure—once a week or so—to serious thoughts of the future. Mr. Lincoln appears to have made up his mind to conquer, and his friends are busily at work in every direction lecturing, speechmaking, writing, publishing, organising, bribing, and in every variety of way influencing or endeavouring to influence public opinion in favour of their candidate. Mr. Lincoln is palpably in the hands of the revolutionists, and is susceptible as warm wax to the pressure which they choose to put upon him. If he resist the revolutionary party— whese cry is immediate and unconditional emancipa tion, the forfeiture of the estates of the Southern " aristocrats," and their distribution among the Northern soldiery and the Southern negroes (the soldiers to be the great landed proprietors, and the negroes the small freeholders)—they will find a man to their mind in Mr. Chase. But Mr. Lincoln will not resist. He will go whither he is led or driven, and in return for his docility the party will strain every nerve to secure his re-election, legally and peaceably if possible, but unconstitutionally and violently if circumstances are unfavourable to the milder course. There are yet nine months to the day of election, but the time is short enough for the work that has to be done. Of course, the whole body of Mr. Lincoln's supporters is not of one opinion on the modus operandi. There are men among them who believe that his re-election, if it be legally effected, will save trouble and avert bloodshed. There are others who would not hesitate to resort to unconsti tutional measures—the men who have fattened upon the spoils of the war under his protecting shield, and who doubt whether they would enjoy such excellent chances of public plunder under any possible suc cessor. There is also a large civic army of function aries and placeholders who have enjoyed good sa laries during one period of four years, who desire to enjoy them for a second, and who would certainly be dismissed by any new incomer, even if he were a man of their own party. Behind these and acting with thew there is the aggresive phalanx of philo sophers, theorists, puritans, and impracticables who indulge in the vision of a mighty Federal Republic, and are ready to forego domestic liberty for the prize of foreign power and the occupation of the first place in the civilised world, vice Great Britain, deposed and revolutionisel. Mr. Seward, as the representative of the first and third class, has broken ground in favour of Mr. Lincoln, and the journals which support his views are following suit. In his speech at Auburn, with the forensic ingenuity which is the principal charac teristic of his mind, he laid down the proposition that on the day Mr. Lincoln was first elected he was de facto, as well as de jure, the President of the whole of the United States, that the " rebellion" which immediately broke out left him President only de jure, that until he be again President de facto he is robbed of power and authority, and that, therefore, it is his " right" to be continued in the Presidency until, by the conquest of the rebels and the restoration of the Union, he be—what he was intended to be in 1860—President de facto of the whole Union from Texas to Maine, and from South Carolina to California and Oregon. As this might be considered a very indefinite prolongation of Mr. Lincoln's power, and equivalent to his appoint ment, for life, the timid Conservatives who support his claim have discovered a new method of dealing with the subject. It is the first time that this section of the Republican parly has found any thing to admire in the South ; but in view of the Approaching danger they have come to the con clusion that the Southern people have done well to nominate their Presidents for six years, instead of four. They, therefore, hint that an amendment of the Federal Constitution to that effect could be easily carried through the present Congress, by which means Mr. Lincoln could be retained in the Presidency until 1866, long before which time, they argue, the Union must infallibly be restored. " If," says one of Mr. Seward's jour nals, " our Presidential election involved simply a change of Presidents, its occurrence in the midst of a great civil war, complicated by the presence of the question of slavery, would be well calculated to arouse anxiety; but involving, as it may, a complete change in the whole machinery of our administra tive system, which is charged with the conduct of war, calling 800,000 men to the field, and which has to provide for a debt of 2,000,000,000d015., it is some. thing which nobody can contemplate without alarm." The writer, however, forgets that the legal amendment of the Constitution--necessary to place Mr. Lincoln for two years longer in office—would be as exciting and dangerous a process as the ordi nary election of a President. The sth article of the Constitution, treating of the mode to be adopted for its own amendment, declares that two-thirds of the members of both Houses must concur in the neces sity of that amendment. There might not be much if any difficulty in that respect with the present Congress, where the Administration possesses a large majority in both Houses; but, as the Consti tution further prescribes that such amendments shall not be valid unless they be ratified by the Legislatures of three -fourths of the several States, or by Conventions of the people of three fourths of the States, specially appointed for the purpose, the agitation of the subject would be as perilous to the domestic peace of the country at a time like this as the election it was intended to prevent. Upon reconsideration, the timid sup porters of the President may therefore see reason to abandon this suggestion, and acquiesce in Mr, Lincoln's nomination of himself, upon the plea of military necessity, supported by his 800,000 bayonets,—who, all counted, might not, perhaps, amount to half the number. The place-holders, contractors, humanitarians, and theorists all act together, and have broader notions of Mr. Lincoln's value to the State than the class of which Mr. Seward is the representative. They know that Mr_ Lincoln, like another great potentate, with whom he has no other point of re semblance, has a fancy for anniversaries ; that he would rather that any of his generals should achieve a_ victory on the 4th of Silly than on the 3d or t h e s th, and that he seems to think there is peculiar sanctity or luck attaching to the 2.2 d of February. 4th of July is th e bi r thday of American The in dependence, the 22d of February is the birthday of George Washington ' • and if great things are again to be don e in America, it is Mr. Lincoln's belief that these t wo are the days on which to do them. Acting upon New this York," id : the " Union Lincoln Asso ciation of under the auspices of Mr. auctioneer, Simeon Drai2r, an and form e rly Pro vast-Marshal of this city, and a committee com posed of wealthy merchants, contractors, stock brokers, and others, have been instructed to make the first movement of the Presidential cam paign. la a circular addressed to the mas ters in the country , functionaries who powesrte appointed by t he p art y in p o wer, and who will indubitably lose their situations if any other President than M r. Lincoln be chosn, thes e gen tlemen have called " on all citizens of the United States, without regard to party," to meet on the 22d of February, "at appropriate places within their towns, counties, or States, for the purpose of xivinn public expression to their sentiments in Mr. Lincoln's favour. General Grant is silent and quiescent, and possibly observant, but as a defeat in the field may make an end of his pretensions at once and for ever, he is wise in keeping his own counsel. Gen. M'Clellan is equally mute, and as no defeat of at y other general can impair his chances, or do ( ther than help them, he is still more prudent in the strategy of silence. His friends, however, are on the alert, and if there be any strength or cohesicn left in the Democratic party, or any lingering love of liberty in the hearts of the people, they will profit by all the mistakes of the Republicans, and oppose a stern front to the encroachments of the Executive and to all the attempts of the revolutionists to overturn or set aside the Constitution. The supporters of Mr. Chase and Gen. Fremont are equally active. Neither of these gentlemen, it is understood, will waive his claims to the Presidency in favour of Mr. Lin coln, and, as their several adherents seem to have as much faith in the luck of Washington's birthday as Mr. Lincoln, conventions of both are to held on the 22d of February ; the friends of Mr. Chase to meet at Chicago, and those of General Fremont at Louisville, Meanwhile the war languishes. The army of the Potomac attempts to " feel" the enemy across the Rapidan, and feels it to its sorrow. Butler makes a cunning attempt upon Richmond and is foiled. Gen. Gilmore raises the siege of Charleston and comes home, and nobody is either surprised or indignant. A small force is left upon Morris Island to pour Greek fire and shells into which the Federal forces can annoy but which they are unable to capture, and nobody is scandalised either at the pettiness or the wantonness of the proceeding. Gold is up at nearly 60 per cent. prem., and no considerable num ber of persons is alarmed, while the few who raise the warning voice are sneered at as cowards, de nounced as traitors, or accused of an attempt to " bull" the market in their own interests. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, SOUTH-EASTERN, The report of the directors states that the gross receipts for the half year ending January 31 amounted to £6642,848 (including £27,790 for steamboat traffic), as compared with £659,686 for the corresponding period of the preceding year, being a decrease of £6,838. The ordinary working expenses during the half-year amounted to £251,257, the rates, taxes, tolls, and Government duty to £36,996; and the working of the steam packet service to £13,312, making, with other items, together £305,805, against £306,058, showing a de crease of £253. After providing for rents, interests, annui ties, preference dividends, &c., there remained a net balance of £218,475 available for dividend on the ordinary stock of the company. The directors recommended a dividend of 17s 6d per £3O stock, being at the rate of £0 16s 8d per cent per annum, payable on Marsh, leaving a balance of £1,659. The net receipts, after deducting working and other ex penses, amounted to £347,043, against £353,629, showing a decrease of £6,586. The total number of passengers con veyed over the line in the six months was 6,668,709, against 6,356,013 for the corresponding period, showing an increase of 312,696. The increase in the total receipts amounted to £120,197, and for season tickets to £13,731. The total number of passengers carried in the year ending January 31, 1855, was 7,921,232, the total receipts were £635,718, and for season tickets £20,962. The total number of passengers carried in the year ending January 31, 1864, was 13,455,053, the total receipts were £755,915, and for season tickets £31,693. The Charing-cross Railway had been worked since the 11th January. Although the station at Charing-cross was still unfinished, and the approach to the temporary platforms by Villiers-street was very circui tous and inconvenient, the directors were desirous of open ing the line, however partially, at the earliest possible period. The directors had felt it necessary to proceed with much caution in making the necessary arrangements, in view of the heavy press of traffic to be expected so soon as the station at Charing-cross was in a condition to receive the whole of the through trains of the South-Eastern Com pany. The directors state that 119,829 passengers were carried over the line without casualty during the three weeks ending the 31st January last, being at the rate of 2,200,000 passengers per annum. Of the above number 52,683 were booked between South-Eastern stations and stations on the Chasing-cross Railway, and 67,146 were local passengers between Charing cross station and London bridge. The steam packet service continued to be conducted with regularity and despatch ; the average speed maintained by the company's new vessels, the Victoria and Albert Edward, in making their voyages from port to port, has been above 17 statute miles an hour. The outlay on capital account during the half year had been £182,296, less £3,695 rea'ised by the sale of surplus lands. To provide for the better accommodation of traffic, and for the effectual work ing of the local trains between the railway and the stations of the Charing-cross Railway, the directors requested the sanction of the proprietors to the further expenditure on capital account of .CG0,780. The capital account showed that £13,254,040 had been expenled to the 31st January last. METROPOLITAN, The report of the directors states that they have arranged all matters in difference with the Great Western Railway Company. The net receipts from traffic during the half year up to the 10th of August payable by the Great Western Company amounted to £6,787, and for the four months and 21 days during which the line has been worked by this com pany to £20,654. The available sum for division among the shareholders is £29,145. The directors recommend that a dividend be declared at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum upon the preference and ordinary stocks of the company, leasing a balance of £1,312. The directors have resolved on constructing the extension to Finsbury with four lines of rails throughout, and sufficient land is being purchased for that purpose. The proposed extensions of this company's line from Paddington to Kensington and Brompton, and from Finsbury towards the Docks, are to be constructed by means of separate capitals entirely distinct from the present authorised capital of the company, and to depend for their return exclusively on their own earnings. The directors call the attention of the shareholders to the proposed metro politan district railways by Mr. Fowler, their engineer, as a comprehensive project promoted by powerful parties. Upwards of 4,631,000 passengers have been conveyed over the railway during the past six months. From the opening of the line there has never been a sufficient plant to work it adequately, and since the abandonment of the working by the Great Western Company the supply of plant has been so limited as to leave no reserve, and consequently no power to augment the accommodation so much required. The capital accoant shows that £1,670,340 had been expended to the 31st December, leaving a balance of £71,966. The re ♦enue for the half year amounted to £51,909, and the ex penses to £17,844, leaving a balance of £31,055. CRYSTAL PALACE AND SOUTH LONDON JUNCTION. The report of the directors states that most satisfactory progress has been made in the construction of the works curing the past half-year: The report of Mr. F. T. Turner, the engineer, states that possession has been obtained of nearly all the land required for the immediate prosecution of the works at every available point. About one-third of the total excavation in the cuttings has been completed, and with a view to increase the rate of progress arrangements have been recently made for disposing of the greater portion of the heavy cutting near the Crystal Palace, independently of carrying it through the adjacent tunnels, thus securing to the company a more immediate prospect of an early open ing of the line. The brickwork in both the Crescent Wood and Paxton tunnels has been carried on without intermis sion, and about one-half of the entire length of each has been completed in a very workmanlike manner. The via duct at Peckham, the bridges over the various roads, and all the requisite masonry are for the most part in the course of construction. The expenditure on capital account was £477,952. MORETONHAMPSTEAD AND SOUTH DEVON, The fourth half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at Bovey Tracey—the Earl of Devon in the chair. Mr. Lloyd, the secretary, read the report, which stated that during the last 6 months the works had favourably progressed. The contractor had concentrated his men be tween Bovey Heath and Moretonhampsi . ead, on which length of the line several of the cuttings were in a forward state, and some of them would be shortly completed. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. WOOLCOMBE, and carried. The retiring directors, Messrs. Cuming and Wills, were re-elected, and a vote thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. LYNN AND HUNSTANTON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Lynn on Friday, Mr. L. Simpson in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the directors proposed to declare a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, although the traffic of the line had not yet been fully developed. The result showed that cheaply constructed lines through agricultural districts, if economically worked, would be beneficial both to their promoters and the trunk line with which they were in con nection. The goods traffic which had already passed over the line had exceeded the estimate, and would no doubt con siderably increase. The completion of the line now in pro gress from Lynn to Sutton would afford fresh facilities for passenger traffic from Lincolnshire to Hunstanton, and as soon as additional accommodation for visitors was provided at th a t t own he was sanguine that the traffic would be con siderably increased. The agreement with the Great Eastern Company was now complete, and the directors were working upon peeectly friendly terms with that company. Mr, V.eatliniTE, C.E., stated that ten good houses were built at Huiastanton last year, and that plans had now been prepared for 20 others. The report was adopted and the dividend 'declared ; the rotiring directors and auditors were re-elected, and £l5O was voted to the directors,:together with thanks, which were also extended to the officers of the company. NEWTOWN AND MACHYNLLETH. The half-yearly meeting was held on Wednesday, at Machynlleth ; Mr, R. D. Pryce in the chair. Mr. D, Howell, the secretary, read the report, which stated that, under the arrangements with the Oswestry and Newtown Company, the railway was worked as part of the Cambrian system, and that the guaranteed dividends might be declared of 5 per cent. on the preference shares and 41 per neat. on the ordinary shares for the past half-year. The Bill for amalgamation had been reintroduced this session, in pursuance with the agreement with the Oswestry and Newtown. To guard against delay in the completion of the line from Machynlleth to Aberystwith, the company were promoting a bill with a view to obviate such a risk, in accordance with agreements entered into in 1861 with the Manchester and Milford and the Aberystwith Welsh Coast Companies. Preference shares under the capital Act of last year had been disposed of to the amount of £68,550, leaving 123,450 not yet subscribed for. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. FOULKES, the report was adopted. Dividends at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference and 41 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital for the past half-year were declared. Earl Vane was re-elected a director, and Mr. Jones was re-elected auditor. The proceedings termi nated with thanks to the chaizman and directors. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22. 1864. SOMERSET AND DORSET. The report states that the last section of the line, from Temple Combe to Blandford, was opened for public traffic on the 10th of September. On the 14th of September the Blandford and Wimborne section was handed over to this company by the London and Sonth-Western Company, and the through service between Burnham and Poole com menced on that day. The amount of traffic which imme diately came on the line was satisfactory, as the earnings per mile from the opening throughout exceeded those on the Burnham and Temple Combe section for the corresponding period of 1362, that section having then been opened nearly 12 months. The revenue account shows a balance of £3,221, after providing for working expenses, as against £2,610 for the corresponding half of 1862. .The total num ber of passengers conveyed during the last half-year was 158,148 ; the total of goods, 37,443 tons ; and of cattle, 14,651 head. The working expenses amount to is. 6d. per train mile. The capital account shows a total receipt of £1,007,049, of which a balance of £16,424 was unexpended at the Slat of December. The receipts on revenue account for the half-year were £15,101, and the expenditure £ll,BBO, leaving a balance of £3,221. BRECON, MERTHYR, AND NEWPORT. The half-yearly meeting was held at Brecon on Tuesday, Mr. W. L. Banks in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the traffic on that portion of the line which had been opened was most satisfactory, and it was expected that by May next they would be able to run their trains 48 miles, from Brecon to Newport. He alluded to the impoitAnce of securing the Ramney line, which gave them an outlet at Newport, and there were also arrangements in progress with the Mid-Wales and other companies for an interchange of traffic. The report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum was declared for the half year on the ordinary capital. Resolutions were also passed approving the proposed lease of tho Hereford, Hay, and Brecon line, and authorising the directors to raise addi tional capital. TAFF VALE. The report of the directors states that the accounts for the half-year ending the Dec. 31 last :show a disposable balance of £52,312. Of this amount the directors place the usual sum of £750 to the credit of the depreciation fund, and declare a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, pay able on the 7th of March, carrying forward a balance of £2,439 to the current half-year. Under the authority given at the last general meeting the sum of £37,924 has been bor rowed upon mortgage. On the Ist Jan. £120,000 consoli• dated preferential 4t per cent, stock became duo, and was paid off, but will be offered for re-issue when a favourable opportunity occurs. The final arrangement with the Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway Company not having been completed, the management of that undertaking has not yet passed into the hands of the Taff Vale directors, The directors have concluded the agreement with the Llan trissant and Taff Vale Junction Company,which has been sanctioned by the Board of Trade, and the first dividend is charged is the present accounts. The capital account shows a total receipt of £1,524,689, of which a balance of £11,349 remains unexpended. The receipts from all sources of ,re venue for the last half-year were £149,865, and the ex penditure £68,431, leaving a balance of £1,434, out of which £30,645 is deducted for interest, &c,, leaving a balance of £50,989, to which is added £1,343 from the previous half year, making the disposal balance £52,342. DUNABURG AND WITEPSK. The first ordinary meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, Mr. G. J. Goshen, M.P., in the chair. The SECRETARY read the roport, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that all the expe3tations which had been formed at the starting of this undertaking had up to the present been ful filled. The Minister of Public Works in St. Petersburg had expressed his satisfaction at the progress made with the works, which had been proceeded with much more rapidly than he had expected. The directors wishes to insure the shareholders against the railway costing more than £B'J per share, and they had provided for this by having contracts for everything. As the land had been purchased for the amount estimated, and as there was no cause for believing that the contract of Messrs. Peto and Betts for the execu tion of the works would be exceeded, the directors' expec tations that the line would be built within the estimate had every chance of being realised. Everything had gone on smoothly up to the present time, and all arrangements with the Russian Government had been exceedingly satisfactory. Mr. W. MILLER, M.P., seconded the motion, which was adopted. On the motion of Mr. CARRUTHERS the directors who retired were unanimously re-elected, and Mr. J. Coleman and Mr. A. Symes were appointed auditors. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded tho proceedings. --- SAN PAULO (BRAZILIAN). The directors state in their report that recently a question had arisen between them and the contractors, but there is every probability of an amicable arrangement of it. The directors beg to intimate that they now intend to revert to the usual system of making calls, and that the sum of £4 per share will be required early in April next. The rela tions between the company and the Imperial and local authorities of Brazil are of the most friendly character. It appears from the report that Mr. J. Brunlees, the engineer in chief, that the station at Santos is nearly finished, and that the first section of the line, 13 miles in length, is in a forward state. The heavy works on the second section, 37 miles in length, are progressing satisfactorily ; and on the third section, 38 miles in length, the works are in an ad vanced state. The past season has been unusually favourable and the supply of labour abundant. The total expenditure to the 31st of December last amounted to £1,467,492, leav ing a balance of £138,288. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending the 30th of January amounted for local passengers to £3,582, for foreign passengers to £865, for mails, &c., to £575, for local freight and live stock to £10,883, for timber and lumber to £757, for firewood to £lO4, and for foreign freight and live stock to £2,934; total; £19,696, against £19,259 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increaee of £440. CHIMINO CLOCK.--" The large clock in the centre tran sept is a fine piece of mechanism, one of the largest chiming." —Morning Post, Sept. 29, 1862. Clocks by the first artists of the day for the drawing room, dining room, bed room, library, hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, church, turret, railways, warehouse, counting house, musical, and astronomical. Church and turret clocks specially estimaied for. 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Doclyard and Steam Factory Labour Charts have ust been issued for 1862-3, arid for nine months to the 31st of December, 1863. The Ac countait-General of the Navy reports that these are the first accounts of this description which have been prepared, and then proceeds, as follows, to state the principles and data upon which they have been made cut : " Under each dockyard and steam factory are exhibited the various services upon which the work men hove been employed, grouped under several genera. heads, so as in the main sufficiently to illus trate the character and extent of the works upon which they have been engaged. The several grades of workmen so employed are likewise shown against the ships and services, together with the wages paid to and the time worked by each grade, the latter being worked out with reference to the number of men employed for the whole period of the account. " Tie net value of materials issued to and returned from the several ships and services is likewise given, " At the end of each dockyard and factory a tabular statement is appended, showing the per centap of the number of men employed and of wages paid upon each of the general services, as compared with the total number of men employed and tctal amount of wages paid at each yard. " Under the column of Remarks,' the profes sional officers of each yard have inserted brief gene ral observations, descriptive of the character of the particular works for which the charges have been incurred. "'lle amounts included for wages and materials in the accounts of each dockyard and steam factory are certified by the Admiralty audit clerks as agree ing with the final classified charges for such expen diture in the dockyard expense accounts, Nos. 88 and 89, for the same period, and the amount paid for wages agrees with that taken credit for in the finance accounts for the period. "In the Appendix No. 1 attached to these ac counts are given detailed particulars of the several amounts paid to the workmen landing, receiving, issuing and shipping stores, as well as those for landing, receiving, removing, &c., timber, in expla nation of the total charges for these miscellaneous services. " In Appendix N 0.2 is shown the labour expended in each of the workshops and at the saw-pits and saw-mills under each dockyard for manufactures and conversions of timber, in order to indicate the amount of labour expended upon each of these operations, the results of which constitute the sub sequent issues to and charges against ships. "A description is likewise given of the charges which constitute the cost of labour under General Expenditure' in the several workshops at the dif ferent yards. " Prefixed to the accounts and statements before referred to are general abstracts, showing in debter and creditor form under the several heads of service, and at the different yards and factories, the total amount of wages paid and materials charged, and under each service the average percentage of men working and of wages earned on account of such service, with reference to the total number of men employed and total amount of wages paid at the several dockyards and steam factories. A further abstract is also attached indicating similar results under each of the heads of service at each of the dockyards and factories." The amount paid for labour in the dockyards in the year to the 31st of March, 1863, is £875,995, and this represents the employment for the year of 14,414 workmen, with a fraction of 143 k days for one msn. The net value of the materials consumed upon these several operations is £1,753,874. The percentages of the total number of men employed and of wages paid upon the several operations are as follows : Per Cent. Men. Wages, New work, Head No. 1 .. 21 .. 211 Repairing, fitting, and maintenance of fleet, Heads 2 and 3 .. 251 261 Yard craft, Head 4 .. .. 2i .. 25 Harbour service, Head 6 .. 211 .. 21 Manufactures and conversions, Head 7 29a .. 28 Other departments, Head 5 .. . , • . Similar results are worked out with regard to the services upon which the workmen of the several steam factories in the dockyards have been em ployed. Only the abstracts for nine months to the 31st of December, 1863, are as yet printed, but it is of no small importance that, before the discussing the Navy Estimates of next year, the House of Commons should have before them accounts of the expenditure upon ships building and repairing up to so recent a period, and thus ba put in possession of the state of things up to the latest time, and so be enabled to form a more practical opinion of of future requirements. MURDER IN WARWICKSHIRE, Only a day after the murder for which George Hall has been committed for trial at the approach ing assizes at Warwick, a similar crime was perpe trated at Brailes, a small agricultural village, within sight of the scene of the conflict between the Royalists and Parliamentarians, at Edge Hills, in 1642. The name of the deceased is Henry Clifton, and he was employed as an agricultural labourer on the farm of Mr_ James Garrett, who has a large holding under H. J. Sheldon, E•q., the late high sheriff of the county of - Warwick. The name of the murderer is George Ditton, who for the last 12 months has acted in the capacity of gamekeeper to Mr. Sheldon. The crime was committed late on Ttursday evening, as deceased was returning from his work at Mr. Garrett's, across an orchard on land occupied by Mr. Harris, another tenant farmer of Mr. Sheldon's, on which crchard there is a footpath used by the in habitants in crossing the Brailes hills, as a short route to the main thoroughfares loading to the Ox ford, 'Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway on the weft, and to Shipton-on-Stour, Stratford-on- Avon, k.c., on the north. This footpath has been extensively used daily from time immemorial, but Mr. Sieldon has set up a right of way for the last 12 moaths. The explanation of the above facts are necessary to a proper understanding of what is to fol low. Clifton and a fellow labourer, named Hol tom, were crossing the footpath on the night in question, when the keeper was stationed in tie orchard with a double-barrelled loaded gun and a dog. As soon as he saw them approach, he asked a man named Walker, working in the corner of the crchard, who they were. Walker told him the name of one of them. Ditton said he would see who the other was. That other was deceased, who had a stick in his hand. It is stated that he had bean previously stopped by the keeper and asked, but refused to be searched for game. On the pre sent occasion, however, there is no allegation that Clifton or his companion were either returning frcm or going to poaching grounds ; but, however, Ditton went up to Clifton, collared him, walking beside him some distance with his hand upon his collar, telling him he was on trespass. An alter cation and struggle ensued, the keeper wishing to drive the man back over the hills, the deceased desiring to get home ere the shades of evening fell, but, it is said, promising not to come that way again. By a desperate effort deceased got out of the keeper's grasp and struck him with his stick, after which Ditton deliberately presented towards hies his gun. By this time Mr. Harris had come np to his orchard and, according to the evidence ho and Holtom gave at the coroner's inquest on Satur day, Ditton deliberately shot the deceased, and waked away to his lodge, followed by yells and cries of vengeance. He was soon afterwards ap prehended. r r h d e er., e , oronn's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful no Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly as bcrrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at once and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Sewing Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only save the money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same time secure to themselves the possession of one of the best and most celebrated sewing machines in the world. Every in formation given on application; or by letter addressed, with a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, Beaufort beildings, Strand, London, W.C., where members are en relied daily between 10 and 4 ; Saturdays, 10 and 2, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS SATURDAY REVIEW.—It must be an immense honour to represent Brighton in Parliament. Judg ing from what men are willing to go through for the chance of attaining that position, we should say that it must be one of the very proudest distinctions that ever fired a generous ambition. After reading the account of the proceedings at last Saturday's nomination—not to speak of the little affairs of Monday and Tuesday, which have more than sus tained the reputation of the borough—one is lost in admiring astonishment at the heroic endurance of which English gentlemen are sometimes capab.e when the prize of martyrdom is a seat in the House of Commons. Not one of the five patriots who on that occasion faced the fierce democracy of Brighton in the fiercest mood can have been ignorant of what was in store for him. It was perfectly well known beforehand that there was going to be an awful shindy, for elaborate precautions had been taken to minimize the risk to life and limb which was more or less incurred by all persons concerned. The hustings were carefully fortified in the best way that circumstances permitted. The structure was strongly boarded round on all sides but one; a roof of stout planking was put overhead; and the re porters were considerably secured in a box of extra depth, where they could neither see nor be seen unless they were imprudent enough to expose them selves voluntarily to the fire of the enemy. The result entirely confirmed the wisdom of the judicious arrangements. From beginning to end of the day's proceedings there rained on the chief performers a regular hurricane of missiles of all descriptions —stones, dirt, gravel, oranges, battered hats, boiled and unboiled potatoes—with the pleas ing accompaisiment of deafening yells frome five thousand throats. We have no complete return of casualties ; but the unfortunate Mayor is re corded to have got a black eye (not the least wound he has received from the enlightened elec tors), and the strength of the works which pro tected the reporters was tested by "a large boulder stone" which "came with startling force" against the boarding in their front. Conservative and Libe ral speakers alike were impartially pelted, and more than one of the candidates must have eaten (without a metaphor) an amazing quantity of dirt. Yet we hear 01 no flinching in any quarter, unless we are to make an exception of one gentleman who resorted to the somewhat undignified expedient—which must have sadly interfered with the impressiveness of his oratory—of " continually bobbing about and shielding his face with his hat." Candidates, movers, and seconders all stood manfully up to their work, as if they lrather liked it than otherwise ; and all, with a magnanimity which does credit to human nature, professed unbounded zeal for the elevation and glorification of the working class of which their hearers were politely assumed to be - a fair average sample. In a moral point of view, likewise, the day's proceedings included much which nothing but the very strongest sense of a duty to be performed, or of an honour to be won, could have rendered tole rable to a gentlemen. The speakers, no less than the auditors, indulged in a liberal exchange of those little amenities which are only endurable in the pursuit of a cherished object of ambition. Even the refined and cultivated Mr. Fawcett—who, by the lvay, seems throughout to have enjoyed the rather questionable distinction of being the popular fa vourite—roundly charged his opponents with cor ruption and intimidation; and he was given to understand in his turn that he dealt in " calumnies," that he pursued an " ignoble course," and that he would retire from the contest with "a stigma upon his character." It is a fine thing for the country that men of intellect and social standing are ready to go through this sort of thing with no earthly ob ject in view but the public good. It speaks volumes for the disinterested patriotism of Eng lish gentlemen that no fewer than five aspirants can be found in a single borough, who, for the chance of performing gratis a most laborious service to their fellow citizens, will subject them selves for hours together to insult and outrage not unattended by-personal danger. Even under defeat, they sustain the same indomitable spirit which had carried them bravely through the conflict. At the declaration of the poll on Tuesday, Mr. Goldsmid pledged himself to his auditors, in the fee of a shower of missiles, to come forward again on the first opportunity; and we have little doubt that his disabled end absent rival, Mr. llarnas—who had unfortunately fallen among the Philistines the night before and been very scurvily used—would be quite ready to give a similar undertaking. It is to be regretted that, as there was but a single vacant seat to dispose of, the martyrdom of four out of the five candidates necessarily wont unrewarded. One and all, to the " Protestant champion" downwards, they claim our respectful admiration. EXAMINER.—A money crisis exists in India lead ing to difficulties in trade and finance. This has been ascribed to all manner of causes but the right one. It has been ascribed to the hoarding of silver by the natives—to India's being now, as at all times, a sink of the precious metals—to the incapacity of the mints to coin fast enough—and to the inability of the banks to issue a sufficiency of paper money. We believe the true cause to be over-trading, or spe culation beyond means, a mistake which India has made before, but probably never on so great a scale ac on the present occasion. The unnatural demand of Europe for cotton, caused by the American civil war, is the main cause of the over-trading. Before the cessation of the American supply, the cost of the Indian supply at the old normal prices was estimated at no more than £9,000,000. Very nearly the same quantity in 1863, and of somewhat worse quality, is estimated to cost £43,000,000, a difference which amounts to the frightful sum of £3l,ooo,ooo—one sufficient to disarrange the commerce of any country. It has to be made good by imported bullion and merchandise, which have at the same time to pay for the usual supply of other Indian staples, such as sugar, rum, indigo, raw silk, jute, oil seeds, and rice, hides, horns, &e. No wonder, then, that such a state of things should bring on a commercial crisis. As to the theory of India being a sink of the precious metals, we can only say that it produces neither gold nor silver, and if it is to have them, it must have them from foreign nations. It is no more a sink of gold and silver than it is of copper, tin, and zinc, all of which it is a large consumer, without producing a pound's weight of any one of them. It is, in fact, no more a sink of gold and silver than is England of sugar, wine, cotton, silk, and hemp. As to the boarding of the precious metals by the Indians, we have not the least doubt but that it has been monstrously exag gerated. The buying of treasure in the East is sel dom or never practised, except in civil war and fo reign invasions. The only way in which silver is withdrawn from circulation in India is by its con version to trinkets for the wives and children of the peasants. Now the amount so disposed of cannot possibly be large, for the upper and micEle classes are too intelligent to indulge in tricketry, and the number of the peasantry who can do so must be small, the majority living from hand to mouth, deeply indebted to the money-lenders. The people of India, it should not be forgotten, are not in money matters a prodigal and thriftless race, but, far beyond their state of civilisation, economical, and generally even p penurious. That India is not at present labouring under any peculiar scarcity of the precious metals is, we think, to be inferred from the fact that Europe is at present sending to it hardly one-half of the bullion it supplied before the cods .mencement of the cotton famine. Previous supplies had, in fact, gone a good way towards saturating it. But the monetary difficulty of India is accom panied by a financial state, not, indeed , formidable, but disappointing, for it threatens to reduce the yearly £3,000,000 of surplus which have accrued since the suppression of the rebellion to no surplus at all, or, may-be, to a deficit. SPECTATOR.—Mr. Gladstone's sermon at Haw ar den on the value of thrift was not composed, as the sermons he is said to be always writing usually are merely for his own edification, or that of a provin cial audience. It was the expression of a convic tion deeply rooted in his mind, and which even then him towards a measure which, if the was impelling people accept it heartily, may make thrift of the most provident and farsighted kind a constituent of the national character, All through the recess little hints have appeared in the semi-official journals of some great measure with which Mr. Gladstone in tended to continue the war against pauperism which he declared when he instituted the State Banks for the poor, and social reformers half ex pected that it would be ushered in by one of those wonderful efforts which, besides making Mr. Glad stone a Minister, prove that rich eloquence and exact statistics may proceed at the same time from the same mouth; that Adam Smith might have been an orator, or Cicero a currency doctor, and yet not have been an intellectual lusus naturce. The effort, however, has been postponed, and the most decisive blow whida since the new Poor-law has been levelled by a British Government at English misery has been delivered in the form of a short, simple, and almost technical bill, introduced without explana tion " by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Peel." In the Act which cr ea t e d t h e P ost -office Savings: Banks there was, as we pointed out some weeks since, a clause enabling any person to pur -1 chase a small deferred annuity. That clause was, however, inoperative, and, i n d ee d, so f ar f orgo tt en that postmasters in country districts declared they knew nothing about it, and refused without special instructions to earry out its previsions. It required the poor man afraid of the workhouse for his old age to buy the annuity by a single payment, and as he had not the money, an d wou ld not part w ith it if he had, and seldom heard of the Act, and could not understand its provisions when he did hear, he never attempted to benefit by the new principle introduced. In three years there was scarcely a single application, not one serious one, indeed, ex cept from a liberal master or two anxious to provide for an old dependent, and the poor went on sub scribing to societies which every eduested man who read their rules knew must fail just when life-long payments had made their promises beneficial, Mr. Gladstone resolved on extending his scheme, and the present bill gives the Treasury power to accept payment for such annuities in instalments, to be regulated as to amount and intervals entirely by the officials. That is all contained in the im poriant clause, and that is enough in Mr. Gladstone's hands to reform the habits of English lower-class life, and, if only the masses can be induced to accept the enormous privilege conceded, to revolutionise the operation of the Poor Laws. For it enables the Chancellor by simple executive order to create a Benevolent Society, covering the entire kingdom with its offices, open to subscriptions like the societies which already cover the tend, but unlike them beyond risk of fraud, or injustice, or bank ruptcy, or the temptation of exhausting trust funds in unlimited beer for the throats of thirsty trustees. He can, and we believe will, arrange that payments in pennies shall be received weekly at all post office savings banks, which payments shall secure to the payer an annuity at sixty of not less than ten shillings a week. John Smith, engineer journey man, may, in fact, by sacrificing—on a rough cal culation—about seVenpence a week of his wages, guarantee himself against poverty when he can work no longer, or if he has a little extra nerve in parting with wages, may buy for himself an old age of hearty, well-fed comfort. The servant wi;o now, after a life of well-fed ease, passed in houses where she is as far as physical comfort is concerned herself one of the rich, looks forward to the work house as her only home in old age, may, by merely paying away her " veils," secure herself an inde pendence which will make her a welcome guest with all the relatives who now plead that, kindly as they are inclined, they can but just feed them selves. This payment, moreover, is made for an absolute certainty. No blunder of calculation, or fraud by secretaries, or claim from a pot-house landlord, or vote by half-drunk men, received as " liberal" by the society and as insane by Mr. Tidd Pratt, can impair the State guarantee, or leave the nation without means to allow the annunity earned by such ceaseless thrift. The element of risk, the doubt as to future solvency which destroys the in stinctive thrift of the poor, is removed, and every penny the labourer can lay by is assured beyond all chances, save those which would destroy the value of Consols, to his old age. It is not too much to say that if the scheme is accepted by Parliament and the people, the worst misery of poverty, the vague dread of the future which deepens and intensifies itself with every advance of education, the anxiety which is the harass of the middle-class, and is be coming the torture of the poor, will be abolished. The first clause of the little bill on a half-sheet of paper is the deadlient blow ever levelled by an Eng lish Cabinet at the sum of human misery, the strongest check officials have ever been enabled to place on recklessness and prodigality. The suc cess of the measure depends upon the people, and their co-operation has still to be secured. The bill will need exposition, and exposition in a very po pular form; but the penny press and the clergy can manege that between them. The postmasters will do nothing, will, indeed, resist as much as they dare, those functionaries hating trouble to an extent which afflicts them with chronic incivility. Even a relieving officer is scarcely such a brute to the poor as the average country postmaster, a cause which impedes the success of the postoffice banks almost as much as the postmistress's habit of chat. ter. The poor object to be cursed, except in the way of business, and object still more to hear their savings discussed in the village taproom where, though the landlord is " safe," and the villagers trusted, the master's bailiff is neither, and the poor man's relatives are greedy for little loans. Still, if the proposal is attractive the people will hear of it and understand it in the end ; but will it be attrac tive ? In the towns we think it will, and among better-class servants ; but throughout the people it will be regarded as having one serious drawback What is to be done about sickness ? Old age is far to the young, but sickness is always near, " con finements" are pretty nearly inevitable, and the society which offers allowances for illness as well es old age may have the preferencce over the Govern ment, which provides for old age alone. If the idea becomes general that the society is more beneficial, Mr. Gladstone's bill like every other advance in civilisation, benefit the mechanics but just miss the noun try labourer. He may see means for meeting this objection, and we shall wait with some anxiety for his exposition, but for ourselves we are clear that to succeed the State must go one step further, and guarantee through the Union medical machi nery annuities payable in sickness. Without that advance the benefit may be but partial, with it Mr. Gladstone will have extinguished among the honest and industrious the horrible dread of old age. LONDON REVIEW.—The flagrant abuses of Pri vate Bill Legislation have at last compelled tee Government to deal with the question. Foremost among the evils of Parliamentary Committees are their incredible waste and costliness. The London and North Western Railway has spent from first to last a million sterling in the committee-rooms of St. Stephen's! The Great Western has expended £BOO,OOO in Parliamentary contexts. The Great Northern was mulcted in £420,000 before a sod was turned. The Parliamentary costs per mile of the Groat Eastern are set down at £9OO. Some shorter lines have been plundered in a still more shameless man ner. The Hereford Railway expended a quarter of a million in obtaining/he sanction of a line 25 miles in length—say £lO,OOO per mile. Fifteen and even 20 per cent. on the capital of a company are not unfrequently wasted in Parliamentary litigation. Sir M. Peto, indeed, relates one case in which the entire subscribed capital of a company (X 82,000) wasswallowed up in passing the ordeal of the ,tand ing orders! It is conjectured, with some show of probability, that of the £400,000,000 expended on the railways of the United Kingdom about a tenth has been swallowed up in Parliamentary contests and committee-rooms. It may be thought that the great cases of wasteful litigation belong to the years of railway mania-1845, 1846, and 1847. But this notion is dissipated by a return of the Parliamen tary outlay of the great lines between 1855 and 1861. The London and North Western spent £150,009 ; the Lancashire and Yorkshire, £90,000 (£40,0 0 0 in 1861) ; the Great Western, £86,000 (X 40,000 in 1861); the Caledonian, £80,000; the North British, £60,000; the Great Eastern, £48,000 (£28,000 in 1861). Mr. Whalley, M.P., charges Parliament with having caused an expenditure of a million and a half on less than 300 miles of railway in Wales. The sum spent by railway companies by no means represents the entire cost of Parliamentary litigation. Small landowners, and those who have inconsiderable interests to protect, are compelled to pay feesentirely disproportioned to the value of their interests. Col. Wilson Patten, who, as chairman of the Committee of Selection, may be said to be the manager of the private business of the house, states that a gentleman of Gloucestershire or Wiltshire who had to defend his garden against a railway could not get into the committee-room without incurring an outlay of £35. His garden was worth £B5; his bill for Parliamentary expenses ultimately amounted to more than £3OO. A Par liamentary agent told a Committee that in no case would he advise an owner to appear in Parliament against a railway company. This is a denial of justice to the owners of small properties. In one case a gentleman was put to an expense of £3OO or £4OO in preparing his case. Hie counsel were in structed, and his witnesses were in E , tt 6:clan ce,_when the railway company, at the last moment, :old him they did not want his land. This was a case in which an owner has no redress, and yet Parliament has refused to relieve such persons from payment of fees. Why is there such an outcry, not to say panic, in regard to the metropolitan railway invasion but that small landowners and occupiers know they are at the mercy of railway companies, and are debarred by the ruinous expense from appealling to a Par liamentary Committee for protection ? Add to the millions spent by railway companies the hundreds of thousands levied upon owners of property, tenants, and others who have had rights to defend, and what a monstrous and sinful aggregate of waste has been sanctioned and enjoined by Parliament ! LAW TIMES.—The " Palace of Justice " is to be again brought before the House of Commons. Notice has been given that a bill to authorise its erection near Lincoln's-inn-fields will be introduced during the present session, and we trust it will find a happier fate than its predecessor. Since the re jection of the former bill by the measuring cast majority of one, the evidence in its favour has mul tiplied ; the complaints by the public and the Pro fession of the insufficiency of the existing law courts have grown louder and louder, and out of doors no economist could be found so rigid as to refuse assent to the assertion that in no part of Europe is justice so meanly lodged as in wealthy England. At length then there is a fair prospect that this long required improvement will be accomplished, and we may hope to see in a few years a concentration of all the law courts on a noble site, in the heart of London, con structed with all the accommodations for the public, fcr the suitors, and for the Profession, which the union of experience and science can devise. RAILWAY NEWS.—It may be matter of interest at the present time, when the subject of circular railways for London is under the consideration of Parliament. to hear what has been the result of the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture de Paris, which encircles Paris, north of the Seine, as Mr. Fowler's proposed Outer Circle Railw•iy would, if constructed, encircle London north of the Thames. The Paris line ex tends from Auteil, just outside the fortifications, by Patsy, Les Batignolles, Montmartre, La Chapelle, Belleville, St, Mande (outside the Place du Vont clog round to the stations of the Orleans Railway, to the Jardin des Plantes. The line also coullect, the various railways across which it enabling merchandise to be readily carried bY,.lar• means from one metropolitan station to an 18x2, This railway was opened on the 14th of July' re and the results of tie enterprise since that date the now before us, as reporteJ by the companY to . _ t. shareholders in Paris on the 14t,b. of IgB3 It will be suffi,:ient if we state the traffic of thtg The total number of passengers convey ( 311 % f ,. an passes, tb il .; line during the entire year was 205,607, T h e average of 589 per day, or 32 per train. The ' , o th was worked between five stations until the rhL of November, when two other stations were oPe st i r ,‘ one of which Belau., is " en correspontianc e' the Vincennes Railway. Ttie results, as re s P e ' - money, were by no means satisfactory. Ttle fir ceipts were found to have amounted to 1,093,311 and the expenses to 1 293,772 f., showing a I ° ss i e 197,460 f. on the working. Although a consideo;' 0 increase is expected in the traffic on the cornPlet',o°, of the line round the south of Paris (which , bt) til ever, will involve the. construction of two c° s ' l , s bridges over the Seine) we believe the propriel°o of the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture de Par is t r discovered that the traffic of a great city is" " - „ t° - one suburb of it to another : and the disco the bably, may not be without its interest to the P jectors of the proposed similar circular railvcld round London. Murder of a Wife at Hirwain, Glamorgaw shire, and Suicide of the Murderer. The village of Hirwain, Glamorganshire , Saturday thrown into a state of the great est e$ be. ment and consternation, in consequence of i ts gD coming known that an engineer, named r' y ,r Williams, had murdered his wife by strangling b' whilst asleep, and had afterwards put a his own existence by hanging himself from an ir ° crook in the ceiling of the kitchen of his dwell in , g l house, The first alarm was given by a little l; of daughter of the deceased couple, who ran o ut 0 ' the house screaming and in evident terror, and w f , b d ° on being interrogated said that her father fl- d mother were both dead. The neiglaltours atfirst b eP h e u t that she was suffering from some childish fee r, A 7, n z on entering the house they were horrfied at fln u t.e d -- the man hanging by the neck, as already des criv ,; pe riod from the ceiling of his kitchen. They cut d°". 3 the body as speedily as possible and found it Still warm, but the vital spark had fled. They tn, went upstairs, where the wife was found in L: e l3s and apparently asleep. There were no indie3tino of any struggle having taken place, but th e woman was quite dead, and on her body beied, examined it was found that she had been s traeg . ch apparently in her sleep, by means of a cravat, W bi to was found drawn so tightly round her throat fi s se be to an extent embedded in the flesh. In her es;,, also the body was not quite cold. It has bee certained that the murderer and his victim re-r ,it a to bed as usual on the Friday night, an d there va be no doubt that he got up at an early henr' : er having first despatched his wife in the we-riltof indicated, went into the garden, cut dow n a Rkbat a clothes line, and hanged himself with it. c riU►e motive led to the perpetration of the doub;e d that hri not been ascertained, but it is sal Williams, who was not forty years old , had boolot bad health, and had suffered is his spirits s that that lunacy may probably have led to the feoce tragedy. Information of the sad event wasst "oe sent to the coroner with a view to an inq uest°ll bodies. COUNTRY MARKETS• LEICESTER—SATURDAY. with There was hardly an average show of wheat to-1001p a fair attendance of the trade. Buyers operated oT ec . 11 0 ' and the turn in prices was in their favour. operated 01e; Oats in slow demand. Beans quiet, Flour a n u - n er 3t) " —New white wheat, 42s to ; red, 40s to 4 0 ' ' 0 ,0 1 5! stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley , Td ofl new, 32s to 36s per qr., grinding, 26s to 29e ; ° "l3eo e ' 24s to 27s ; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone: v old, 39s to 42s per 38 stone ; sour, 27s to 32s Per YORK— SATU RDAY. tO' d° There was a limited show of wheat at make t ti btO and the sales were slow—former quotations belvgbeapfr' supported for fine dry samples ; other kinds rather c d o tta An average supply of barley, with a for,ipTC. at about last week's rates. A fair demand oafs , ' vious prices. Beans as before, but scarce. to 0 4 Wheat, red 37s to 40s Oats.... ....... . Iss 8. to 1 Ao. ,` . White do .40s to 4os Beans ........... 0 to -•'' Barley .26s to 32s Peas ......... ...•a"--ur' Malt, .sbs to 60s per qr. ; rye, 30a per qr. " ' to 31s per sack. Old white wheat, 438 GRANTHAM to 47s ; red, 40s SATURDAYto 43s P e 'bo 3 rlel' new white, 42s to 468; red, 39s to 428. Alalting . , , , 2 3s t/ 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s; oats, °ltlo 265; new, 20s to24s; beans, als to 375; peas, als NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a short supply of wheat, and pricesalare 3 i r e i rlis the same as on this day se'nnight. There w as , uea rte, of barley, which sold at fully late rates. O ats, peas very dull. Flour was in favour of the se ller 4 . o , 0 0 6 1 36 0 White wheat 44s to 47 , 1 Red wheat ...... . 3 5 s tO d j Malting barley 3.5s t0,37s Ch eva lier barley • • 24 , to Distilling Ido 29s to 30s Oats.. .......... Flour, 27s 6d to —s Od per sack from the D,.• NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY . The supply of wheat to-day was tolerably O a ' : ''l;;° were made quietly, and prices were a shade lower til so ' c l i pal week. A fair inquiry for best samples of barlei,d s teot prices unaltered. Beans in. better demand, al,; t o —White wheat, from 41s to 478 ; red wheat, 4v B OP; Barley—malting, 30s to 38s ; grinding, 27 8 to 3 11 at old, at 24s to 30s ' Od ; new, 19s to 2.55. Beans , to 42s per qr, new, 34s to 36s sat'''' Flour, fine, 34s to 38s; seconds, 29s to 32s P-- Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. g 20' a r ' 0 Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. **** :MO' 6. via Marseilles ....... . Mar' 0. ail and Cape Verds, by British packet. ...... .yeb. 3, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helen"; . 3lsr . ,/ ilLina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southauipto .-geb. via Marseilles .. •• 2 6 ' Falkland Islands ....... 5 Gibraltar, via Southampton ....... .. g , India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton•yeD, 2216 via 'AI areeillet•• •• . fel , . O. India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ Feb. 6 ..... via Marseilles ........... Difi r ,' , 26. Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, end Aden, via Southampton ...... Feb. 0, via Marseilles ...... yd. Newfoundland .......................... 2 5 Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. paCket • ' . 19. by U.S. packet ',"_,V,Fe b. 1 0 ' W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and T b en C e a ri n tf a e d . i . a ... P . a . c .!•" N i g ;t r . .. i t i : ,) Bahamas, via New York .................... , fel) 0 Mexico. . ............ !.. . pe „, fel ) . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, California. and 13ritish Columbia. ........... Of the e RESTORATION OF CHARING CROSS.--uti-Aa V;l' be most graceful services ever rendered to 1-4 00 `;1 11 as pOSS' the , erection of a monument as neatly samestood size and feature as tne original Eleanor Cr ° l o oo i 4 in the village of Charing. This architectural t i t tr , promised by the new railway company, hose arcbitec, get Barry, A.R.A., has founda moPsarc'ownvenient s ite 1 %,,ct sb open space in front of he terminus, very De 3 ; , tile spot on which the ancient cross stood. The height the edifice will be nearly 70ft. Of the ten crosses w l/ic. ' f ill oo the halting-places of the coffin of Queen Ble till° t - ce' 4f6 road from Grantham to Westminster Abbey (.'&3l now in existence, the finest being that at %s r ' Court Journal. _ ______ _ __ • Births. f F red _ i f ° 0 GENET.—On the 20th inst., at Brompton, the 's.,otti J. Genet, Esq., of a son. 1 u SCOTT.—On the 18th inst., the wife of C.a -de a' .414. Esq., ot a daughter. ' s tel' STALLoN.--On the 17th inst., at Hornet f1e13313 idro. S. Stalion, of a daughter. -sq° 3"' WooG.—On the 19th inst., at 9 , W obutp Jules Woog, of a daughter. „ Cr' Marriages. •ceste" ;'n n t Del 005 Mottins—HUDSON.—On the 18th inst., 5 ry, I' . e i gL'otitill' it. Morris, Esq., of North Lutfenhan 3, daughter of James Hudson, Esq., jl' '' lo st/‘'r Leicester. ~0101 31, ;;oef. RICE—HA.RCOITRL—On the 18th inst., at liss•-• eities-cecill Oxon, Captain Edward Bridges Rice, ft i i .e nt,g a rco lirt ' o E cfa d Nr w oul a i r un d eeh, thee, Esq., of Dane Court,. „ D on +`- u s ru ec - o p u l d rk d , au o g l h o t n e . r of Rev. W. . -- of Deaths. p(l., . ii ter l3 B°' BATEMAN.—On the 19th inst. James -.--I' GOO 9 Bow, and the city ot London, d 7 1 . ar i e s 0 . London , ` age ditig , Ch oriPit Cocas.—On the 19th inst., at IteL _ H 119, a , v g i2L . e L.‘ d v. H. . . . . i 2 1.1 3 ,0H ECCLES.—On the 19th inst., at Chelten/135lic3Die',:hir ' ef 4ea S 3 E T li g U e tli.' :I n in a t l h i F :e c ß e l6 l N e t s l: ini.:l,;6ao3tf 1-IBi 4slece1;111:::'1811ire' C'3Pt:l3ll: ~ Col. s I T i,.. — E. O , n l. t A h . e , aogtehd inst., 0 ito,,,,sy ,orito, Po lis, u ,:o G eucptE E : T N,Cat . T iOn the . 18"thaginPst., .at Exeter. ..--Licill"- orJoro Cli ood9 M.A.9 ,-, vernoo v,;t1.9 TENN ' the inst., wenn eT3S-Omelnietthuyotilt;est sonrotiAft lii e ll rcjit: neat' L'i ..!..!: - -...°' Well-park. ' ''' --- - ,_ i ., --------<A. Dl°l'll`39 London : Prinzed andrytiTished-n-y--0711-'-'?„/.43.10-0.14° l's ii: l i i 19i of No. 112, Strand, Frillier, at 'lOO o',o to e Co _Strand. ,fa the Precinct of the svoire4. illithlWaex —Monday, February 22 , 1 T